Talkback radio legend John “Golden Tonsils” Laws has died at the age of 90.
Nicknamed “Golden Tonsils”, the talkback host passed away peacefully in Sydney over the weekend, being cared for at his home in Woolloomooloo.
Laws was most famous for his lengthy stint on Sydney’s 2UE, starting back in 1957, and while he initially retired from radio in 2007, he later signed with 2SM in 2011.
He is survived by his three children, Sam, Sarah and Joshua.
While best known for his radio career, in recent years Law was also making a series of clever property moves.
Just last year, Law sold one of two previously adjoined waterfront apartments, located in Sydney’s Finger Wharf, Woolloomooloo and in the same complex where he lived.
Located at the water-front end of a 400 metre long wharf, one of the other nine units is home to actor Russell Crowe.
“I am deeply saddened by his passing, however, I am buoyed in the sure and certain knowledge that he led a magnificent life of achievement and adventure and he lived every moment,” Crowe said.
Paperwork registered in September of last year revealed the price for the unit was about $12.5 million and was exchanged off-market to billionaire steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta and his wife Nicola.
The radio host also sold off another property he owned on the Finger Wharf back 2018, an apartment that went for $2.9mil, more than four times what he paid for it back in 1997.
Prior to moving to the area in the early 2000s, Laws and his late wife, Caroline lived in a luxury home in Woollahra designed by Espie Dods before selling it in 2004 for $7.7 million.
Earlier still, Laws had purchased a cottage in Woollahara, a 250 square metre property for approximately $295,000, back in 1988.
He sold it four years ago for $3.42 million.
